Sustainable Agarwood Plantation

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Since the agarwood is now listed in CITES appendix II. People in

Indonesia and may south eastern asia countries is on a race to plant

and producing agarwood artificially from trees. Indonesian mycologyst

named DR Erdhy Santoso from Bogor Institute of Agriculture had

succeded making certain fungus mix that can make the agarwood tree

produce resin within 1-3 years after the tree grows it's full size.

This had already proven by y wangko from Bangka island, Bangka

Belitung Province. He manage to export 30 tons of low grade ( 1 year

of innoculation)/ month to Taiwan from his plantation.